Prep/Personal: Four-year letterwinner in track & field at Normal Community...helped the Ironmen win the Big 12 conference and inter-city championship his senior year...placed 9th on pole vault at the state championships in 2007...achieved a lifetime career-best mark of 15'3"...born July 9, 1988...son of Steve Peckmann and Holly Hillyard...majoring in moving image arts.